Google: Google Scholar

About Google Scholar

What is Google Scholar?

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search acrossmany disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

Features of Google Scholar

Searchall scholarly literature from one convenient place

Explorerelated works, citations, authors, and publications

Locatethe complete document through your library or on the web

Keep up with recent developments in any area of research

Check who's citingyour publications, create a public author profile

How are documents ranked?

Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full textof each document, whereit was published, whoit was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been citedin other scholarly literature.